Exercise DESERT ROCK IV, April-June 1952

Abstract

The overall purpose of the report is to provide all branches of the Armed Forces with the latest information available from Exercise DESERT ROCK IV, for use in study and planning in connection with the possible employment of atomic weapons. While the principal mission of the exercise was the indoctrination of troops and observers, attention was also given to blast and thermal effects on troop equipment, materiel, and emplacements under field conditions, and on live animals. Information contained in the report is factual, but results from a series of single detonations of atomic devices of differing KT yields, differing methods of delivery, and differing heights of burst. Since no two detonations covered in the report had identical background, results from each detonation must be considered separately, and caution must be exercised in generalizing from this report on possible effects at predetermined distances from ground zero.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1952
Accession Number
ADA078565

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Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Animal Structures
  • Employment
  • Explosions
  • Fabrics
  • Ground Zero
  • Instructors
  • Medical Personnel
  • Nuclear Energy
  • Personnel Management
  • Photographic Dosimeters
  • Plastic Explosives
  • Quantum Cascade Lasers
  • Radiation Dosage
  • Schools
  • War Colleges
  • Weapon Control
  • Weapons

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  • Instructional Design and Training Evaluation.
  • Theoretical Analysis.